Barren Earth (DC Comics)

Barren Earth is a DC Comics series of a possible future Earth that was printed as a backup in Warlord #63–88 and had its own miniseries, Conqueror of the Barren Earth.

Barren Earth
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	Warlord #63 (Nov. 1982)
Created by	Gary Cohn Ron Randall

Creation

Gary Cohn spoke on the creation of the series stating:

Edgar Rice Burroughs. It was my homage to the John Carter stories. I wanted to create my Barsoom, and that’s what we did, created our Mars with all the various races, the arid climate, the need for water, a lot of things that were clipped from Barsoom stories and then stirred up in our own inimitable way.

Co-creator Ron Randall stated his inspiration for the look of the series:

For me, Dune was definitely part of the inspiration as far as trying to visualize the planet as I had read the Dune book. I grew up in Oregon and spent a lot of time on the Oregon coast, in Florence, walking on as I found out later the same sand dunes that Frank Herbert was studying as a budding environmentalist. So that sort of landscape was something that had been in my subconscious from the time I was a young kid. That was certainly an influence on me in coming up with how to sculpt those vast expanses of sand.